Israeli occupation army kidnaps the total of 50 Palestinians from the West Bank on Wednesday

Wednesday April 09, 2008 16:42 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli occupation army invaded several cities and towns in the West Bank and kidnapped 50 Palestinians civilians on Wednesday at dawn.

The sources said that the kidnappings took place in the cities of Nablus, Qalqilia and Tulkarem in the north, Hebron and Bethlehem in the south and Ramallah in the central part of the West Bank.

25 of the 50 kidnapped today were taken during a pre dawn invasion targeting Nablus city and nearby refugee camp.

Meanwhile Israeli troops attacked and searched homes in Qalqilia, and kidnapped four residents after closing down local schools and a mosque.

Another nine were taken in a similar Israeli attacks targeting the Siyda village near Tulkarem city.

The remaining 12 were kidnapped from the cities of Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem Palestinian sources said.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 41 Palestinians in the West Bank in largest raids in months

Date: 09 / 04 / 2008 Time: 10:08
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 41 Palestinians during raids in the West Bank on Wednesday morning, Palestinian witnesses and security forces reported.

Israeli occupation troops detained 25 Palestinians in the city of Nablus in one of the largest arrest raids in months.

Twenty-four of those arrestees were affiliated to Fatah, and one to Hamas, local sources said.

Palestinian security sources told Ma'an's reporter in Nablus that more than 30 Israeli occupation military vehicles stormed Nablus and neighboring Askar refugee camp from the east and west at 2am. Israeli troops raided numerous Palestinian homes before kidnapping 25 young Palestinian men.

In the village of Shawawra, east of Bethlehem, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two men who Palestinian security forces say are Islamic Jihad activists.

Separately, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped four Palestinians in the West Bank city of Qalqilia.

Palestinian security sources said that dozens of Israeli occupation military vehicles raided the city and Israeli troops stormed the Al-Quds Open University, the Islamic Club and the Qalqilia public library as well as several mosques in the city.

Israeli occupation forces also seized a 20-year-old Palestinian woman named Su'ad Zraiqat in the town of Taffuh, west of the city of Hebron, witnesses said.

Local sources said the woman was a student at the branch of Al-Quds Open University in Hebron, and the Israeli forces arrested her after ransacking her family home.

Israeli occupation forces also seized nine Palestinians from the northern West Bank village of Saida, north of the city of Tulkarem.

Local sources said that the arrestees were affiliated to Fatah and Islamic Jihad and that one of them was a disabled ex-prisoner.

***Updated at 12:35 Bethlehem time

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